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AUGUST 28, 1924 84. “While there is Life there’s Hi Publishe LIFE Cuartes Dana Ginson, President PUBLISHING by COMPANY Lx Roy Mitter, Sec'y and Treas, V8 Madison Avenue, New York English Offices, M® DAVIS’ speech of acceptance was) a pleasure to read and an carnest of \more pleas- ures to come, He is a first-rate writer, and one ob- serves that he has read the Bible to some purpose. One remarks also that he has taste and is not prone to over- ornament, but can produce beautiful as the introduction of his speech attests. And he is definite, clear, and finds no trouble in discovering things necessary to impart, or in im- parting them so that they find the way to the hearer’s mind. His poli tagonists must find additional evidence in his address that he is a serious can- didate to encounter. In his dealings with President Cool- idge as an individual he has a pretty delicate job, for Mr. Coolidge is not a person scarify, or indeed who invites scarification, but with the Republi y and its record for three years past the case is quite differ- ent. There is no objection to wallop- ing it on proper grounds, and Mr. Davis finds such grounds and wallops it good and plenty. “Lindict it," he said, “in its organized capacity for having shaken public confidence to its very foundations. suitable to “I charge it with having exhibited deeper and more widespread corruption than any that this generation of Amer- icans has been called upon to witness. “I charge it with complacency in the face of that corruption and with ill will toward the efforts of honest men to expose it. “I charge it with gross favoritism to the privileged and with utter disregard of the unprivileged. “I charge it with indifference to world peace and with timidity in the conduct of our foreign affairs.” Rolls House, Breams Bldgs., London, E. He talked about corruption in office, about the tariff and its effect on the farmer: Zurope and the unof- ficial dealings with it to which the division among Republicans had com- mitted us. He does not like them. He would have us act as a nation dealing with nations. He rejects the Repub- lican position that we shall never join the League, and believes that we will join it, though not until the country, irrespective of partisanship, is united in wanting to do so. The altitudinous tariff-rates, he reminded us, had not protected the farmers one whit, but had put up the cost of living on them while in reducing importations of goods they had impaired the power of Europe to buy their food-stuffs. He soaked the Klan, though without naming it, by vigorous remarks on religious freedom, and handed the Drys an assurance that in office, if he got there, he would en- force all the laws. Y, T is true that Mr. Davis, speaking at Clarksburg, spoke not as a historian but as a candidate. If he had been speaking as a_ historian he would doubtless have enlarged more on the Washington conference and the gallant efforts of Mr. Coolidge’s administra- tion to get the Dawes Plan through and at the same time maintain its alibi. And if he had been earnestly bent on giving Mr. Coolidge the whole of his due he would have mentioned that he appointed a splendid man to the office of Attorney-General after Messrs. Walsh and Wheeler had driven Daugh- erty out, and that he had sent a com- petent and useful Ambassador to Lon- don. Mr. Davis, however, is used to letting the other side tell its own story and perhaps he would not have though: it in accord with professional courtes to anticipate Mr. Coolidge and Mr Dawes in mentioning these matters in their defense. It is not necessary that a candidate should picture all the vir tues of the opposition, but it is very desirable that what he says about faults should be true. We may with confidence that Mr. Davis wi mect that requirement. He will not ¢o through the campaign beating the ai When he lets go he will hit someth: that is there. He does the job delight fully. With so good a performer i: the ring we ought to have two mont! oi excellent political entertainment a surely we are entitled to some refre ment after all those hot days we hail Nor will Mr. Davis be the only live! performer. One does not expect mu lightning from Mr, Coolidge, though | will undoubtedly put out good remark but Mr. Charles Dawes can be trust to provide diversion, and so can vari ous of the Third Party men, especial Mr. Wheeler, who does riproaring well as anybody, ard is full of vig and furnished with considerable know edge. The Third Party too is well fu nished with writers—over-well, itm: be. What it will do in the vote-gettir line no fellow can tell, but it is likely t do a good deal to enliven the campaig Te will have few compunctions abou saying anything anybody. like as not it will say a good deal th should be said, and though one does 1 look for dispd statement from “the Thirds,” their critical observati may help to keep the campaigners of t! old parties up to their work. about sionate HE trial of those extraordinary boy still continues in Chicago, at grea expense to that city, and provides mor: entertainment, especially to the prison ers, than a murder trial ought to pro duce. There are two new hypotheses t account for the peculiarities of Loe! and Leopold. One, advanced by doctor in court, is that certain of their glands are so diseased that normal conduct was not possible to them, and the other disclosed in the World by Miss Marion Drew, is that their horoscopes are so comicbooks.com